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ADDRESS 



DELIVERED AT SOUTHAMPTON, MASS. 



CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 



INCORPORATION OF THAT TOWN, 



JULY 33, 1841. 



BY B. B. EDWARDS, 

PROFESSOR OF HEBREW IN THE THEOL. SEMINARY, ANDOVER. 



ANDOVER: 

PRINTED BY ALLEN, MORRILL AND WARDWELL, 

(Successors to Gould &. Newman.) 

1841. 



At a meeting of inhabitants of the town of Southampton, former resi- 
dents of the place, and others, July 23, 1841, — 

Vutcd—Tha.t Rev. M. E. White, and Elisha Edwards, Asahel Birge, 
Asahel Chapman and Stephen Strong, Esquires, he a committee to pre- 
sent tJie thanks of the meeting to the Rev. B. B. Edwards, for his appropri- 
ate and interesting discourse, delivered at the centennial celebration this 
day, and to request a copy for publication. 



For many of the facts communicated in the following Address, the au- 
thor is indebted to a MS, sermon of the late Rev, Vinson Gould of South- 
amj)ton, and to verbal and other information from Sylvester Judd, Esq, of 
Northampton. 



CENTENNIAL ADDRESS. 



We are met to celebrate the birtli-day of this town. One 
hundred years have gone, since it became a separate muni- 
cipal corporation. It is, indeed, but a little one among the 
thousands of Judah. It may be thought by some of her elder 
and fairer sisters in the Commonwealth, that our observance, 
this day, was hardly called for ; that we have nothing to 
commemorate, except the lapse of years, and the short and 
uninteresting annals of two or three generations of men whose 
memories have now almost perished. Why not allow them 
to remain in their oblivious slumbers ? Why distinguish, by 
eulogy and solemn festival, plain and honest men who never 
sought distinction for themselves ? 

To these charges we plead guilty in part. We have no 
forefathers' rock. Peregiine White was not born here. 
The graves of the Lady Arabella Johnson and of her hus- 
band, " the holy man and wise," are not wdth us. No Char- 
ter Oak here lifts its broad and time-worn arms to the sky. 
We have no cellar which concealed the royal judges ; nor 
any door that was pierced by Indian bullets. The drums, 
which awoke the sleepers at Lexington and Concord, were 
not heard in this peaceful valley. We have no great event 
to rehearse ; no stirring story to tell. 

Yet, we are not without justification for our meeting to- 
day. The puritan blood flows in our veins. We claim a 
common descent with the Winthrops, the Hookers and the 
Stoddards of more favored towns. Our ancestors helped to 
plant inestimable civil and religious institutions. Ought 



their remembrance to cease? Theirs indeed are not the 
names which are green on the page of history. But is the 
subaltern to receive no credit ? Is the faithful common sol- 
dier utterly undeserving of mention ? It was by his means 
that the stealthy Indian was discovered and repelled. Ben- 
nington and Saratoga obtained their renown by accident. 
These deciding battles of the revolution happened to be 
fought there. But it was the men from the little towns of 
New Hampshire and Vermont that gathered around Stark and 
Warner. The glory of General Gates was won for him by 
soldiers from Connecticut river. One of the stoutest spirits 
at Bunker Hill was a blacksmith from Northampton. It was 
our ancestors and their neighbors who dared the horrors of 
the wilderness and of a Canadian winter with Arnold. One 
of these adventurous soldiers, through the goodness of Prov- 
idence, is permitted yet to live.* 

We celebrate, therefore, scenes and events which should 
not be forgotten. We call up the names of men which 
should be evermore honored. They acted their part well in 
times of sharp trial. Their trust was in the God of hosts 
when all around was dark. They often gathered their har- 
vest in silence and in fear ; with the weapon of defence in 
one hand ; or a detachment of their number guarding the 
passes of danger ; or far off on some harassing expedition. 
Thick woods and weary miles intervened between them and 
the parent settlement ; while in one direction, they were on 
a perilous frontier. On the North West, from this place to 
Canada, not a single white settlement existed to ward off 
danger, or to give tidings of its approach. The tragedy of 
Deerfield might have been enacted here at any moment. 
The picketed forts would have been no more defence than 
the stakes and the sleepy sentinel were at Deerfield. Those 
were hard times, not more from actual suffering than from 



* Mr. Lemuel Bates of Southampton. 



fear. To be constantly harassed with apprehensions was 
worse, it may be, than any actual infliction could have been. 
It were better to meet the enemy in battle, on one or two 
occasions, and run the risk of his balls, than to lie down at 
night, not knowing but that you might be awakened by the 
bursting in of your door, or the piercing shriek of a toma- 
hawked wife or neighbor. 

Such lacerating anxieties our fathers felt for many years, 
while they were burning the forests by which they were sur- 
rounded, and supporting liberally, with their small means, 
schools of elementary learning and the institutions of the 
gospel. Obscure men, comparatively, they were ; but they 
labored wisely and with true zeal. The town of which they 
were the fathers, has been outstripped in population and re- 
sources by multitudes in the Commonwealth ; but in the In- 
dian and revolutionary wars, it supplied its full quota of men 
and means for the common cause. For almost one hundred 
years, no town was more united in religious opinion and be- 
nevolent labor. Its surplus productions have never been 
abundant, for the soil is not rich ; but it has cultivated with 
some assiduity the minds which have been found within its 
borders ; and given them a direction which has been not alto- 
gether without its benefits to the world. 

We, therefore, hallow the precious memories of our fa- 
thers. We would reinshrine them in our aflections. We 
would gladly plant a greener turf on their perishing dust. It 
is an office of filial and affectionate reverence, to retrace, im- 
perfectly though it may be, some of the prominent events in 
their history. 

Two hundred years ago, Connecticut river from its mouth 
to Canada, was in possession of the Indians. From the fer- 
tility of the soil, the salubrity of the air and other causes, 
their number appears to have been larger than in any other 
part of New England. In the town of Windsor only, there 



were ten distinct tribes or sovereignties. There were large 
bodies of them at Springfield, Northampton, Deerfield and 
Northfield. For obvious reasons, they selected as places for 
their rude encampments the falls of a river, or where the 
smaller streams discharge their waters into the Connecticut. 
Consequently their wigwams would be found in the point 
where Westfield river joins the Connecticut, at Nashawan- 
nuck and Paskhomuck in Easthampton, and at the various 
localities where the larger brooks empty into the Manhan. 
The wigwams were commonly erected in groves, near some 
rivulet or living spring. The whole country was then al- 
most one unbroken wilderness. There were no cultivated 
fields, nor gardens, nor public roads. Except in places 
where the timber had been destroyed, and its growth pre- 
vented by frequent fires, the woods were thick and lofty. 
Where the lands were burned, for the sake of catching deer 
and other wild game, or for the purpose of planting corn, 
there grew bent grass, or thatch, as it was called, sometimes 
to the height of four feet. The Indians throughout New- 
England spoke the same language radically. From the Pis- 
cataqua to the Connecticut, it was so nearly the same, that 
the different tribes could converse together.^^ All the In- 
dians on Connecticut river were tributaries, a part to the 
Mohawks ; and the remainder, first to the Pequots, and then 
to the Mohegans. 

The still forest and tangled path of the red man was now 
to be broken by the white settler. On the 20th of October, 
1635,t about sixty men, women and children took their de- 
parture from Dorchester, Cambridge and Watertown, to en- 
counter the perils of a trackless wilderness. They were four- 
teen days on the road. They struck the Connecticut river 
near the mouth of Scantic river in East Windsor. The 



* See the communications of Mr. Pickering in Mass. Hist, Soc. ColL 
t Some preparation had been made the previous year. 



Dorchester people began the settlement of the river on the 
west side, called by the Indians Manteneaug. Some of them 
were gentlemen of opulence and education. Among the 
emigrants from Dorchester to Windsor, were Isaac Sheldon 
and John Strong, the ancestors of those bearing these names 
now residents in Southampton and the adjoining towns. 
They appear to have belonged to a congregational church 
which was gathered at Plymouth, England, in 1630. 

The first town which was settled in the western part of 
Massachusetts was Springfield. Some of the original plant- 
ers came from England in 1630, in Governor Winthrop's 
company. William Pynclion, the father of the town, and 
one of the eight original settlers, came from Roxbury. Ear- 
ly in 1635, Mr. Pynchon and the inhabitants of Roxbury 
iiad liberty granted them by the General Court " to remove 
to any place that they should think meet, not to the prejudice 
of any other plantation, provided they remained under the 
government of Massachusetts." They accordingly came in 
1635, and built a house on the west side of the Connecticut, 
on the Agawam, or Westfield river, called from that fact 
Housemeadow. A permanent settlement was made in the 
spring of 1636. The name was changed from Agawam to 
Springfield, by vote of the town, April 14, 1640. Among 
the early inhabitants of Springfield who removed to North- 
ampton, and whose descendants now reside in Northampton 
and the towns which were formed from it, were Samuel Burt, 
Alexander Edwards and John Searl. 

The lands bordering on Connecticut river, which are now 
in the towns of Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield, were 
first known by the Indian name Nonotuck. On the 6th of 
May, 1653, a number of persons petitioned the General Court 
of Massachusetts to grant them liberty to possess, plant aud 
inhabit the place on Conetiquot river, above Springfield, call- 
ed Nonotuck, as their own inheritance ; representing that the 
same was a place suitable to erect a town for the further- 



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ance of the public weal and the propagation of the gospel. 
At the same time, in aid of this petition, John Pynchon, 
Elizur Holyoke and Samuel Chapin of Springfield, present- 
ed a request, stating that the place was very commodious, 
containing large quantities of excellent land, and that at least 
twenty-five families in the neighborhood " had manifested a 
desire to remove thither, many of whom were of considerable 
quality for estates, and fit matter for a church." In answer 
to these petitions, the Court, in May, 1653, appointed a 
committee to divide the lands petitioned for into two planta- 
tions. One of them was afterwards formed into Hadley. 
The other plantation, Northampton, was to "extend from 
the upper end of Little Meadow to the Great Falls towards 
Springfield, and extend nine miles from the Connecticut." 
There is a tradition, that an English family came to North- 
ampton in 1652. In 1653, a number of families settled in 
the place. It was bought for 100 fathom of wampum and 
ten coats, besides some smaller presents in hand, paid to the 
sachems and owners, and also for ploughing up sixteen 
acres of land on the east side of the river. A new deed was 
subsequently executed, and a more satisfactory compensa^ 
tion was given. In 1656, " townsmen," or selectmen, were 
chosen. March 18, 1657, the people voted to employ an 
agent " to obtain a minister, and to devise means to prevent 
the excess of liquors and cider from coming to the town." 
On the 7th of June, the town, by unanimous consent, desir- 
ed Mr. Eleazar Mather of Dorchester, "to be a minister to 
ihem, in a way of trial in dispensing his gifts." In 1661, 
the town voted to build a meeting-house forty-two feet 
square. May 7, 1662, Hampshire County was formed of 
the three towns of Springfield, Northampton and Hadley. 
When the church was first gathered at Northampton, June 
18, 1661, it consisted of eight members. Rev. Eleazar Math-^ 
er, Elder John Strong, William Clark, Thomas Root, Thorn- 



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as Hanchet, David Wilton, Henry Cunliffe and Henry Wood- 
ward. 

The first settlement south of the present limits of North- 
ampton, was commenced in Nashawannuck, (now in East- 
hampton,) in 1665, by John Webb. It was continued by 
two of his sons, and by Robert Danks, who married his 
widow. The second settlement was commenced in about 
1686 or 1687, by Samuel Bartlett, or permanently, a little 
later by his son Joseph, at a place which was called for a 
long time, " Bartlett's Mills," near the centre of Easthamp- 
ton. The third settlement was formed about the year 1700, 
by five families, those of Samuel Janes, Benoni Jones, Moses 
Hutchinson, John Searl and Benjamin Janes, at Paskhomuck, 
at the western base of Mount Tom in Easthampton.* 

The precise date when the first settlement was made, with- 
in the present limits of Southampton, cannot now be ascer- 
tained. Samuel and Eldad Pomeroy, who lived in what is 
now called Pomeroy's Meadow, petitioned the General Court, 
that met May, 1742, to have their families and farms remain 
with the first precinct. It would appear, that they had pre- 
viously belonged to the old town, and not with those who 
had removed further south ; they had helped build the meet- 
ing-house in the first precinct, and had not asked any thing 
in return, like those who lived over the Manhan river. They 
mention, that of late about thirty families had settled, and 
were about to settle, at the south-west corner of the town 
bounds ; are now about to settle a minister, have actually 
begun their meeting-house, and have obtained a grant of the 
General Court for a tax of six pence per acre on all land in 
said precinct. The Pomeroys thought it hard, that they 
should pay this tax and the various expenses of the new pre- 
cinct. They state that they had improved their lands 

* See the Half Century Sermon of Rev. Payson Willistou of East- 
hampton, 1839. 

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(meaning meadow lands) and paid taxes for them, forty or 
fifty years. This would seem to show, that the land at 
Pomeroy's Meadow was under cultivation as early as 1700. 
It cannot be ascertained, so far as I know, when the first 
building was erected, or in what year the Pomeroys made a 
permanent settlement. The tradition is, that they built their 
first houses in 1722, or 1724. After the meeting-house in 
the south precinct was built, and a minister settled, they were 
cordially received into the new society, agreeably to their 
own request. 

The proprietors of the second precinct were all, or nearly 
all, inhabitants of the old settlement. As some of them had 
a number of sons, their fathers offered them extensive farms 
if they would effect a permanent settlement upon them. But 
the hardships incident to such a removal were too great to be 
easily surmounted. A number of persons who made the at- 
tempt soon relinquished it. The date of the first meeting of 
the proprietors on record is March 21, 1730. This was an 
adjourned meeting from the .31st of January. At this meet- 
ing the question was put, " Whether the proprietors would 
divide the land beginning up the hill over Manhan, upon the 
west side of the country road, and to extend beyond White- 
loofe brook, so far as our old bounds went, in such form and 
manner as to be suitable (together with the additional grant 
that now belongs to the town) to make a precinct or town ; 
and the division to be made to and amongst the original or 
ancient proprietors, their heirs or assigns, or any that hold 
by purchase under the ancient or original proprietors, or their 
heirs." The committee appointed to effect a division of the 
land were Hon. John Stoddard, Ebenezer Pomeroy, Dea. 
John Clark, Hon. Joseph Hawley and Ensign Ebenezer Par- 
sons. The lands were accordingly divided and assigned by 
lot to thirty individuals, on condition that they should make 
improvements and erect buildings upon them within a speci- 
fied time. The first notice of the second precinct in the 



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Northampton town records is Dec. 22, 1732, when the town 
chose Ensign John Baker and Moses Lyman a committee 
" to lay out a highway over the branch of Manhan river at 
or near Pomeroy's Meadow, or some other suitable and con- 
venient place, so as to accommodate the new settlement." 

It does not appear that any family commenced a permanent 
residence south of Pomeroy's Meadow, prior to 1732. It is 
probable, that single individuals resided on their lands for 
short intervals of time, for the purpose of preparing them to 
be permanently occupied. In 1732, Judah Hutchinson and 
Thomas Porter came to the precinct and erected houses. In 
May, 1733, fourteen settlers joined them. These were Dea. 
John Clark, Joseph Clark, Samuel Danks, Phineas King, 
Ebenezer Kingsley, Nathan Lyman, Elias Root, Stephen 
Root, Nathaniel Searl, Ezra Strong, Ichabod Strong, Dea. 
Waitstill Strong, John Wait and Moses Wright. During 
three or four of the succeeding years, fourteen additional 
settlers united with the little plantation. Their names were 
Jonathan Bascom, Samuel Burt, Roger Clap, Aaron Clark, 
Elisha Clark, Jonathan Clark, Ebenezer French, Eleazar 
Hannum, Elias Lyman, John Miller, Noah Pixley, Israel 
Sheldon, Noah Sheldon and Stephen Sheldon.* 

The second Precinct was first named as such, on the North- 
ampton Records, Sept. 14, 1739. There was a clause in the 
warrant, " to see whether the town would consent to setting 
off the new town, so called, by the bounds following, viz., be- 
ginning on the south side of Manhan river a little above 
Bartlett's house [Clapp's Mill], and so bounded eastwardly 
upon the country road, till it extends southwardly unto the 
dividing line betw^een Northampton and Westfield, and then 
bounded southwardly upon the line between Northampton 
and Westfield, and then bounded westwardly upon land be- 
longing to the province [Montgomery], and bounded north- 

* See Appendix, Note A. 



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wardly upon the Long or West Division so called [West- 
hampton] ; all which land and the inhabitants thereon, as be- 
fore described, the town voted should be set off a distinct and 
separate precinct, that so by consent of the General Court, 
they might be under a capacity to carry on the worship of 
God among themselves." 

The new settlement was incorporated into the second 
Precinct of Northampton, July 23, 1741. We here present 
the petition of the proprietors, and the action of the General 
Court thereon. 

" To His Excellency, Jonathan Belcher, Esq., Capt. Gen. 
and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of the 
Massachusetts Bay in New England, etc. The Honorable 
His Majesty's Council and House of Representatives in Gen- 
eral Court assembled at Boston, July 8, 1741. 

The Petition of us whose names are undersigned. That 
your Petitioners dwell on a certain Tract or Parcel of land 
in the Township of Northampton in the County of Hamp- 
shire, intended for a Precinct. The Centre of which is near 
about eight miles from Northampton Meeting house ; and 
your Excellency and Honours by observing the votes of the 
Town and Proprietors herewith presented, [will perceive] 
that the Town have given their consent, that we should 
be a distinct Precinct ; and the Proprietors, [have con- 
sented] that a Tax of six pence per acre should be laid on 
the whole of their Tract (being about fourteen thousand 
acres) in the Propriety besides what belongs to the Town ; — 
the whole, both Town and Propriety, bounded South by 
Westfield bounds. East by the Country Road, — North by 
Proprietors' lots in the long division, so called, — West by 
Country land,- — to enable us to defray some necessary pub- 
he charges, that may arise among us, — and as we apprehend 
nothing stands in our way, — We therefore most humbly 
move that your Excellency and Honours would be pleased 



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to set us off to be a Precinct with usual privileges, and order 
the aforesaid Tax to be raised, that we may be enabled to 
build a meeting house, settle a minister and have the wor- 
ship of God among ourselves, and your petitioners, as in du- 
ty bound, shall ever pray, etc. 

Samuel Banks 

Roger Clap 

Eben. Pomeroy 

Stephen Sheldon 

SAivnjEL Burt 



Joseph King 
John Wait 
Eben. Kingsley 
Nath'l Searl 
Ezra Strong 
Waitstill Strong 

JONA. BaSCOM 

JuDAH Hutchinson 
Stephen Root 
Nathan Lyman 
Moses Wright 
Noah Pixley 



Thomas Porter 
Selah Clark 
Aaron Root 
Elias Lyman 
Noah Sheldon 
IcHABOD Strong 
Nath'l Searl, Jun. 
JoNA. Miller 
John Miller 
Charles Phelps 
Eben'r French 
Jona. Clark 
Elisha Clark 
Phineas King 
John Clark 
Eleazar Hannum 
Israel Sheldon 
Aaron Clark. 



In the House of Representatives July 17, 1741. Read 
and in answer to this Petition, ordered, that the following 
part of the said Town of Northampton be and hereby is set off 
a separate and distinct Precinct by the bounds hereafter men- 
tioned, viz. Bounded on the South by Westfield bounds, — 
East by the Country Road, — North by Proprietors' lots in the 
long division, so called, — West by Country land, — together 
with the inhabitants thereon, and are hereby vested with the 
powers and privileges which other Precincts within this Prov- 
ince do, or by Law ought to enjoy. — Also voted, that there 



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be a Tax of three pence* per acre per annum, for the two 
succeeding years, upon the land of the Proprietors (being 
about fourteen thousand acres) to enable the said inhabitants 
to build a meeting-house and settle a minister. 
Sent up for concurrence, 

J. Hob SON, Speaker. 
In Council July 18, 1741 — Read and Concurred, 

J. WiLLARD, Sec'y. 
July 23, Consented to, 

J. Belcher." 

The first meeting of the freeholders of the Precinct, after 
its incorporation, was holden at the house of Phineas King, 
September 21, 1741. The following officers were chosen. 
Ebenezer Kingsley, moderator ; Phineas King, clerk ; Wait- 
still Strong, Ebenezer French and Aaron Clark, assessors ; 
Stephen Sheldon, collector. Samuel and Eldad Pomeroy 
were included in the second precinct, as their buildings, and 
most of their lands were south of the Long Division. Na- 
thaniel Searl, John Wait and Phineas King were appointed 
a committee to set up meetings. John Clark, Ebenezer 
Kingsley and Phineas King were chosen a committee " to 
seek out some suitable person to preach the gospel to us." 

In 1743, the number of rateable polls in the town was thir- 
ty-six, Nathaniel Searl, Ezra Strong and John Wait hav- 
ing two each ; all the others but one each. The valuation 
of the whole settlement in that year was £750 7s., in the 
currency of the time. The estate, which was rated highest, 
was that of Nathaniel Searl. The next in value were those 
of Ebenezer Corse, Ebenezer Kingsley, Ichabod Strong, Ezra 
Strong, Moses Wright and Noah and Stephen Sheldon. 
^ In 1750, eighteen years after the settlement of the town, 

* Three pence per acre for two years makes the six pence request- 
ed in the petition. 



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the number of polls, including the inhabitants of Pomeioy's 
Meadow, was sixty two ; and the valuation was stated at 
£1205 2s. 9d. 

The second vote on the Northampton records, relating to 
Southampton, is the following, which was passed Dec. 25, 
1733. " The town voted to repay £5 to those persons who 
advanced the same in recompense for divers ministers who 
preached at the new settlement over Manhan river." It thus 
appears, that provision was made for the preaching of the 
gospel in the very beginning of the settlement, before many of 
the settlers were provided with houses, and when there was 
hardly a bridge or road completed. Among the preachers 
who supplied the inhabitants in 1737, and during one or two 
of the following years, were Mr. David Parsons, afterwards 
settled in Amherst, and Mr., John Woodbridge of Suffield, 
who was ordained over the church in South Hadley in 1742. 
Ministers were then paid at the rate of 40s. a Sabbath or 
£ 104 a year. In 1737, Northampton voted, that a part of the 
tax levied on the inhabitants of the new precinct, should be 
applied towards the building of a meeting-house among them. 
This house seems not to have been completed for a number 
of years.* The town records contain many votes in relation 
to it. It should seem that a considerable part of the expense 
was paid in labor by many of the inhabitants. In January, 
1753, it was voted, at a meeting of the second precinct, that 
" they would give Asahel Judd, seventy pounds old tenor, for 
the work he has done towards the meeting-house, a finishing 
of the pews and galleries." At the same meeting it was vo- 
ted that " Samuel Burt, Jonathan Clark and Stephen Shel- 
don should be a committee to dignify the seats and pews." 
It seems that " dignity" was in the compound ratio of age 
and property. Afterwards, one year in age was voted to be 

* When the meetings were fust liekl on the Sahhath, the people 
sat on the sills of the house. 



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equal to £10 in estate. At a subsequent meeting, the seat- 
ers were ordered " to put men and their wives together 
throughout the whole of the pews ;" and " that the seaters 
should have liberty to act discretionarily respecting the new 
comers." On other occasions, the town gave more despotic 
orders, and ordered that such and such persons should sit in 
this or the other pew, probably according to their real or sup- 
posed dignity. 

It has been the common report, that the Rev. Mr. Judd 
first came to this town, in special answer to the prayer of the 
people, who were assembled in order to observe a day of 
solemn prayer and fasting for this object. From a brief 
MS. Journal kept by Mr. Judd, we learn that there was noth- 
ing particularly remarkable in the circumstances attending 
his arrival. On the 28th of February, 1743, he wrote as 
follows : " Yesterday I preached my last sermon at Suffield 
from 2 Cor. 5: 20, ' Now then we are ambassadors for 
Christ,' etc. and to day set out for New Hampton, to preach 
with them awhile. Got to Westfield, lodged at cousin Jo- 
seph Root's. On the next day, came with Mr. Edwards 
[of Northampton] from Westfield to New Hampton. Came 
to Searl's to dine ; a fast kept ; preached in the P. M., from 
Mat. 9: 17, I am not very well. In the evening agreed 
with the Committee to preach three months for £2 10s. a 
Sabbath, my keeping and a horse. On the next day, not 
very well, but some better. On the Sabbath, preached A. 
M. and P. M. from Isa. 59: 2. Some in the assembly very 
much affected. Phineas King and Eleazar Hannum came to 
visit me in the evening." 

After Mr. Judd had preached several Sabbaths, the church 
gave him an unanimous call, with a single dissentient,* to 
become their pastor. This call was accepted. The ordain- 
ing council met on the 8th day of June, 1743, at the house 

* Understood to have been Ebenezer Corse, who afterwards be- 
came one of Mr. Judd's decided supporters. 



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of Nathaniel Searl. It consisted of Messrs. Edwards of 
Northampton, Hopkins of West Springfield, Parsons of Am- 
herst, Woodbridge of South Hadley, and Ballentine of West- 
field, with a messenger or delegate from each of the churches. 
After a sermon preached by Mr. Edwards, a church was or- 
ganized, and a confession of faith and a covenant were adopt- 
ed. Of the thirty-two males, who were original members of 
the church, twenty-eight were the first settlers of the town. 
The other four were Mr. Judd, Nathaniel Searl, jr., John 
Wait, jr., and Nathaniel Phelps. Soon after, thirty-one other 
persons, mostly the wives of the original members, were 
connected with the church ; so that the sixty-three members 
comprised almost every adult in the town. The church hav- 
ing been organized, the council proceeded to ordain Mr. 
Judd. Mr. Hopkins gave a solemn charge to the pastor elect. 

For settlement, Mr. Judd had 200 acres of land, 100 
pounds, old tenor, in money, and 125 pounds in work ; for 
salary, 130 pounds in money, the first three years ; and then 
an increase of five pounds a year, until the salary amounted 
to 170 pounds per annum. 

During the year, in which Mr. Judd was settled, the coun- 
try was involved in the horrors of an Indian war. A spe- 
cies of fortification, or palisade of stakes, was built around 
Mr. Judd's house ; also a watch-tower or mount at the west 
end of the house, communicating with it by a window. The 
inhabitants removed thither, for a short time, in the height of 
the alarm. Some of those who w^ont into the fields, to per- 
form their agricultural labor, took their place as sentinels in 
order to prevent surprise. When they walked in the roads 
or woods, in search of cattle, or for any other purposes, every 
man carried his weapons with him. The people of the 
neighboring towns sometimes marched hither on an alarm, 
and scoured the woods. The families gradually removed 
from the fort [or forts, for Jonathan Bascom's house seems 
also to have been fortified] to dwellings in the vicinity. 

3 



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In the year 1745, Cape Breton was reduced by the New- 
England forces under Gen. Pepperell. Several men join- 
ed that expedition from Northampton, Among these was 
Dea. Samuel Edwards senior, who had not then removed to 
Southampton. Elias Lyman appears to have been the only 
soldier who went from this place. No Indians were seen in 
the town during that year. 

Early in the spring of 1746, an expedition was proposed 
against the French and Indians in Canada, and several of 
the inhabitants of this town enlisted. The project was, how- 
ever, abandoned. On the 25th of August, 1746, the houses 
of Aaron and Elisha Clark, which had been deserted by the 
families, were plundered by the Indians ; beds were torn in 
pieces ; clothing and provisions were seized, and other vio- 
lence was committed. The Indians, supposing themselves 
discovered, fled to Pomeroy's Mountain, and on the west 
side of it, killed six horned cattle and one horse, and wound- 
ed others. 

About a fortnight afterwards, or near the 10th of Septem- 
ber, the Indians placed an ambush between the houses of 
Ezra Strong and John Wait, near the bars leading to a field 
where cows were pastured. The Indians drove the cows to 
the back part of the pasture, in order that the individual, 
who should be sent to drive them home, at night, might fall 
into the ambush. But the cows, as is usual towards night, 
gradually approached the bars. The Indians then sent one 
of their number to drive them to a distant part of the enclo- 
sure, and keep them there. Samuel Danks, who went to 
drive the cows home, providentially, did not pass through 
the bars, as was expected, but took a nearer course. When 
he came in sight of the cows, he perceived them to be very 
restless. He then stopped a moment, and discovered the 
Indian, trying to prevent them from going towards the bars. 
Danks instantly ran and gave the alarm. The Indians fled, 
and were seen no more, during the year. 



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The inhabitants of the town were now called to suffer 
from another cause. The harvest of English grain was light. 
There was, however, a strong expectation of a good crop of 
corn. But this hope was extinguished ; for on the 12th of 
August, a severe frost killed almost the entire crop in this 
and other towns. Much suffering was consequently expe- 
rienced in the following winter. 

On the 27th of August, 1747, about 5 o'clock, P.M., 
Elisha Clark was killed by the Indians, as he was threshing 
grain in his barn. His body was pierced by seven bullets. 
When found, it was covered with straw. Until this time, 
the Indians had not been heard of in the vicinity during the 
year. This sorrowful event surprised the inhabitants in all 
directions. Soldiers from the adjoining towns assembled 
for the defence of the place, and for the pursuit of the In- 
dians. The foe had, however, fled, destroying, as they went, 
several head of horned cattle. They encamped, on the 
night after they killed Mr. Clark, near the spot where now 
stands the house of the late Mr. Noah Strong of Westhamp- 
ton. Sixteen poles, which they set up there, were supposed 
to indicate the number of the party. 

On the 9th of May, 1748, about noon, Noah Pixley was 
returning from a pasture whither he had driven his cows, 
and had reached a spot a little south of the high-way, a short 
distance beyond the house of Zophar Searl, when he was shot 
by a party of Indians. First, one gun was heard by the 
people in the centre of the town ; then three guns were dis- 
charged in the manner of an alarm ; which were followed 
by three or four others in quick succession. Still, Pixley 
was wounded only in the arm. He then ran five or six rods, 
when the Indians overtook him, tomahawked and scalped 
him. In their haste to flee, they cut off a part of his skull. 
The inhabitants immediately rallied and pursued the In- 
dians, who fled up a path leading to Samuel Burt's resi- 



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dence. At his house, they stopped a short time ; but as the 
family had left it, they did but trifling injury. 

The people were now in the utmost consternation. Every 
heart beat with terror. There was no safety by night or by 
day, in the field, in the road or the house. They immediately 
withdrew from their homes and forts, and left the settlement 
desolate. Most of them retired to Northampton. Mr. Judd 
and his family went to tlie relations of Mrs. Judd in Suf- 
field. On the 19th of July following, seven families return- 
ed, and kept garrison the remainder of the summer. In the 
autumn, most of the inhabitants returned. Mr. Judd and 
his family came back in the following winter. 

The year 1748 was preeminently a year of affliction. 
There has been no year since the town was settled, so mark- 
ed by Divine judgments. There were war, famine and pes- 
tilence. Ezra Strong, Noah Sheldon and Moses Wright, 
original settlers, died. They seem to have been valuable 
men, and their loss was deeply mourned. Much suffering 
was occasioned by the failure of the crops. No one was 
willing to labor on a farm, unless he was surrounded by 
guards. On account of the absence of the husbandmen 
from the 19th of May to the 19th of July, the winter grain 
was mostly destroyed by the cattle which were left behind, 
and by those which strayed from other towns. The Indian 
corn was ahke exposed to depredation, and was left without 
culture until midsummer. Their fathers' God, however, did 
not desert them. They made out to struggle through the 
following winter, doubtless receiving aid from their friends 
and brothers in the old settlement.* A simple fact shows, 
impressively, the losses of this unhappy year. The valua- 
tion of the town in 1743, was 830 pounds; and there were 
forty-five rateable polls. Yet in 1748, five years later, the 

* It is said, that bundles of hay were brought from Northampton 
on the backs of horses. 



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Valuation was but 421 pounds ; the number of polls was 
thirty-four. The following year, 1749, was remarkable for 
a drought, such as has been rarely experienced in New Eng- 
land. There was no rain, except one small shower, from 
March until wheat-harvest. Aged men, eighty years of age, 
who were living in 1820, well remembered that season. The 
grass was burnt up with excessive heat, and for weeks, the 
fields looked like the Arabian desert, where hardly a green 
thing was to be seen. At the time of mowing, not a hand- 
ful of grass could be collected on the best lands. But after 
the rains came, the grass sprung up thick and rank, and 
grew most luxuriantly. It was cut in September in fine con- 
dition. An excellent crop of Indian corn was also gath- 
ered.* 

In 1749, a general peace took place between France and 
England, which was followed by happy effects in these dis- 
tant settlements. The fears of the people were allayed, and 
the Indians gave them no more trouble for four or five years. 
They pursued their avocations without interruption. In an 
important sense, they began the plantation anew. In some 
instances, ten or twelve houses were built in a single year. 
New families joined them. They had tasted of the bitter- 
ness of affliction together, and now they rejoiced in the com- 
mon prosperity. 

Next to the regular preaching of the gospel, our fathers 
were anxious to secure the blessings of the common school. 
In 1748, we find the first notice relating to the subject in 
the Northampton records, although a school had, doubtless, 
been in existence, in some form, earlier. The town then 
voted to have schools in " distant parts of the town, to in- 

* The drought was attended in many places with devouring in- 
sects. Many brooks and springs were dried up. Some of the peo- 
ple of New England were obliged to send to Pennsylvania, others to 
England, for hay. The drought of the present year, 1841, is accom- 
panied with swarms of insects. 



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struct in reading and writing, viz. on the Plain, over Mill 
River, Paskhoinuck, Bartlett's Mills and New Precinct." In 
1650, the selectmen were ordered to provide a schoolmaster 
for the second precinct. In 1751, Eleazar Hannum, Wait- 
still Strong, jr. and Stephen Sheldon were appointed a com- 
mittee to have the oversight of building a school-house in 
the second precinct. Many votes, pertaining to this matter, 
are found in the records, for several years. 

In 1749, the limits of the settlement were much increased 
by the division among the proprietors, (a part of whom were 
resident here and a part in the old town), of what was call- 
ed the " Additional Grant." It consisted of about 3000 
acres, and was bounded by Westfield on the south, Spring- 
field on the east, and the old bounds of Northampton on the 
north ; on the west, it run to a point, or near a point. It 
was divided as follows: Polls were estimated at £10, and 
this sum was added to the valuation by which the tax was 
made that year ; and this was the rule of determining each 
man's proportion of land. Rev. Messrs. Edwards and Judd 
were estimated at £100 each. There had been, previously, 
sequestered for the use of the ministry in the new precinct, 
500 acres of land on White Loaf hill, so called ; for which 
all right to land, sequestered for the use of the ministry in 
the first precinct, was relinquished. 

On the 2nd of March 1752, the town of Northampton, 
by vote, declared their willingness, that the second precinct 
should be created into a district, if tiie General Court shall 
see fit. The first legal meeting of the inhabitants of the 
District was held on the 19th of March, 1753. The first 
time that the name " Southampton" is found on the town 
records is March 5, 1753. 

In 1754, the Indians began again to show signs of hostili- 
ty in some places on Connecticut river above Northampton, 
and in Pontoosuck, now Pittsficld. This news greatly alarm- 
ed the people of Southampton. They at once repaired the 



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fortification around Mr. Judd's house, rebuilt the mount, 
and set up pahsades. But no hostile Indians appeared dur- 
ing the year, or at any subsequent time ; though the inhabi- 
tants were not without apprehension for several years. The 
last French war commenced in 1755. An army was raised 
in New England in order to seize Crown Point. Ten men 
marched from this town, two of whom, Eliakim Wright and 
Ebenezer Kingsley, jr. were slain in battle. The eight sur- 
vivors returned at the close of the campaign. In 1756, a 
number of soldiers were, a short time, in the service. Elisha 
Bascom remained through the season. 

In 1757, Fort William Henry was given up to the French 
and Indians by capitulation. The garrison and soldiers, con- 
sisting of two or three thousand men, were promised security 
in life and property, with permission to return to their homes, 
on condition that they would not serve in the war during that 
year. But in shameful violation of the treaty, they were aban- 
doned to the tender mercies of the Indians. Some were hurri- 
ed off into captivity ; others were butchered on the spot ; while 
all greatly suffered. Two young men, natives of Southamp- 
ton, Nathaniel Loomis and Joel Clap, were stripped and plun- 
dered, and escaped only with life, after a hot pursuit, and 
passing through the woods fourteen miles. 

In 1758, the war, in which a number of soldiers from this 
town were engaged, was carried on at Ticonderoga and its 
vicinity. In 1759, to the unspeakable joy of the English 
colonies, Quebec was taken by Wolfe, and Canada was con- 
quered. This laid the foundation for a general peace.* 

These bright prospects, however, were soon to be interrup- 
ted. An enemy, other than the French and Indians, began to 
assail the rights of her children in this western wilderness. 
Those, by whose sides the men of Massachusetts Bay had 
fought and bled at Louisburg and Crown Point as friends 

* See Note B. 



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and fellow-soldiers, were now preparing to shed fraternal 
blood. In resisting the encroachments of Great Britain, no 
part of the land was more prompt than the county of Hamp- 
shire. It could not be well otherwise, when such spirits were 
here as Seth Pomeroy, Joseph Hawley and Caleb Strong. 
The people of this town were not at all behind their neigh- 
bors. They were ready to contribute and to suffer at any 
moment. The young men marched to the scenes of conflict ; 
while the elders, the anxious mothers and sisters were offering 
intercession to Him, whose hand alone could turn aside the 
unerring rifle ; or stay the pestilence that delighteth especially 
to walk in the camp of the soldier. The old people have told 
us, that, at some periods during the war, hardly a young man 
was present in the religious assembly. The various burdens, 
incident to these times, were shared by all with affecting una- 
nimity. Those who could not fight, could load a wagon 
with provisions, or drive it to the encampment of their brothers 
and fellow-townsmen. Such as were too infirm to bear a mus- 
ket themselves, gladly joined together, and gathered the harvest 
of those who were hemming the British in at Boston, or who, 
with Colonel Brooks, were storming the redoubt at Saratoga. 
The first notice, in relation to the revolutionary times, 
which we find on the town records, is in a communication to 
the town, from Rev. Mr. Judd, in 1768, in which he says, 
" that if such a day of distress and difficulty should come 
[referring to the operation of the Stamp Act], I will join 
with a committee of yours, and they and I will reduce the 
salary as low as it can be reasonably thought proper." In 
October, a meeting of the town was held, to see what meas- 
ures the inhabitants shall think proper to adopt in this critical 
day. Samuel Burt and Aaron Clark were chosen delegates 
to meet a convention which was held soon after at North- 
ampton. Dea. Elias Lyman was chosen a delegate to the 
provincial congress, which met at Concord, on the 11th of 
October. A committee of correspondence for the District of 



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Southampton was appointed, consisting of Jonathan Judd, jr. 
Samuel Burt, EHas Lyman, Aaron Clark, Jonathan Clark, 
Timothy Clark, Samuel Pomeroy, Samuel Clap and Israel 
Sheldon. At another meeting, on the 12th of December, 
a committee of nine were elected " to see what they can get 
for the poor of Boston." It was also voted " to raise three 
pounds, lawful money, for some person to instruct the minute- 
men in learning the military art." In 1775, Elias Lyman 
was again sent to the provincial Congress, which met at 
Cambridge. It was resolved to give the minute-men nine 
pence a time for six half days, in learning military exercises. 
Stephen Sheldon, Timothy Clark and John Lyman were ap- 
pointed a committee "to inspect and see that there are no 
goods brought into the town, since the first day of Decem- 
ber last, and sold contrary to the direction of the Conti- 
nental and Provincial Congresses ; and to see that no trader 
takes any advantage in selling the goods contrary to the ad- 
vice of the Congresses." Nine days after the battle of Lex- 
ington, it was voted to do something to support our friends 
and brethren that have gone into the army. " Voted to 
pay for two thirds of the provision that is provided for Capt. 
Lemuel Pomeroy's company." A committee of nine was 
chosen to collect the provisions and to despatch it by a 
team. The last warrant for a town meeting which was issu- 
ed in " his Majesty's name," was on the 24th of October, 
1775. On the 10th of October, 1776, it was voted as the 
sense of the town, that the House of Representatives, togeth- 
er with the Council should form a Constitution and make it 
public agreeably to the resolves of the Court. 

In 1777, the town voted to give to each soldier, that 
should enlist into the continental service, for three years, or 
during the war, such a sum as a committee should order. 
A committee was also chosen, to make out an average of 
what each man had done in the war ; the heirs of the men 
that died in the service to have as much credit as those who 

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returned home ; and those who came home on account of 
sickness, before the expiration of their time, to have an equal 
sum with those who remained through the period of enhstment. 
For several years subsequently, a large part of the business 
transacted at the town meetings related to the great struggle 
which was pending ; — such as raising bounties for enlistment 
of men ; providing for soldiers' families during their absence ; 
equalizing the burdens which pressed heavily on all ; and, 
with a noble spirit of resolution and confidence, bearing up 
under all discouragements. To add to their other embar- 
rassments, the currency was in a state of most lamentable 
derangement. For example, in 1781, the town voted " to 
raise £200 in silver or gold, and £4000 in continental 
money towards raising our quota of soldiers." 

On the first election of governor, after the adoption of the 
State Constitution, this town gave forty-one votes for John 
Hancock, and six for James Bowdoin. 

Among the miscellaneous resolutions, which were adopted 
by the town, in the first fifty years of its existence, three or 
four may ])e worth quoting on this occasion, as showing the 
usages of those days, and the change which time has effect- 
ed. In 1775, Capt. Judd, Ensign King and Elijah Clap 
were appointed a committee " to treat with some likely man 
to come and settle with us as a doctor, and to report to the 
town at the fall meeting." In the following spring, the 
same committee were directed to " inform Mr. Sylvester 
Woodbridge of South Hadley, that the town of Southampton 
would be glad, that he would come and settle with them as 
doctor."* At an earlier period, the town were equally so- 
licitous to procure a blacksmith. A most respectable com- 
mittee were appointed to superintend the erection of a shop 
" at the corner near Nathan Lyman's," and to effect terms 
with the individual who was to occupy it. 

In 1790, it was voted, that " liberty be given to people to 

* See Note C. 



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go into the school-house Sabbath day noon, they providing 
their own wood ; and that Moses Bartlett, Moses Searl, Selah 
Clark, jr., Aaron Searl and Supply Clark be a committee to 
see that good orders were kept at the school-house on the 
Sabbath days." 

The following vote will show that the day-star of tempe- 
rance had not dawned in 1789, when the selectmen were or- 
dered to " credit each man that enlisted last year to go to 
Worcester, one quart of West India rum." 

Towards the close of the century, Mr. Judd's age and in- 
firmities compelled him to withdraw, in a great measure, 
from the active duties of his profession. He died on the 
28th of July, 1803, after a ministry of sixty years, and in the 
84th year of his age. He was a great great grandson of 
Dea. Thomas Judd, who came from England in 1633.* He 
was the son of William Judd, and was born at Waterbury, Ct., 
Oct. 4, 1719. He graduated at Yale College in 1741, in a 
class highly distinguished, and among whose members were 
Gov. William Livingston of New Jersey, Jabez Huntington, 
Esq., and the Rev. Drs. Samuel Hopkins, Samuel Buel, 
Richard Mansfield and Noah Welles. In November of the 
same year in which he was ordained, he was married to 
Miss Silence Sheldon, daughter of Capt. Thomas Sheldon of 
Suffield, but previously of Northampton. They had seven 
children, four sons and three daughters, all of whom have 
deceased.! Mrs. Judd died Oct. 25, 1783. Mr. Judd was 
again married, in 1790, to Mrs. Ruth Bidwell, widow of 
Rev. Adonijah Bidwell of Tyringham. She died in Dec. 
1815, in her 86th year. Both the wives of Mr. Judd are 
spoken of as very estimable women. 

Mr. Judd was regarded by his people, throughout his long 
ministry, with the profoundest veneration. This was in 
part owing, undoubtedly, to the general usages of society, 
which demanded that the utmost respect should be paid to 

* See Note D. t See Note E. 



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all clergymen. In his case, however, this reverence was fitly 
rendered. His form was venerable, and his mode of dress 
imposing. He preserved, especially in the pulpit and on 
public occasions, the utmost propriety of manners, never 
degrading his sacred profession by any thing unseemly. By 
his appearance in the pulpit, it might have been inferred, 
perhaps, that he was uncommonly precise and unyielding. 
But he was less so than Mr. Edwards of Northampton, or 
Dr. Hopkins of Hadley. In private intercourse, and as a 
pastor, he was aflfable and communicative, sometimes indulg- 
ing in those innocent pleasantries, which were then so com- 
mon. He appears to have possessed those qualities of char- 
acter, which inspired strong affection towards himself. His 
talents were not brilliant, but they were highly respectable. 
I have seen three sermons from his pen. The one which 
was preached in 1758, " to a number of soldiers on the eve 
of marching against the enemy," and which was afterwards 
published, is a very good sermon, both in style and senti- 
ment. It is not, however, I have been assured, superior to 
many others which he delivered. Such a discourse would 
have attentive hearers at any time. The course of thought 
is natural ; and there is much plainness and point in the ap- 
plication. We may mention as peculiarities, not perhaps of 
Mr. Judd altogether, but of the times, that, he generally clos- 
ed his sermons with the sentence, " This much may suffice." 
His quotations from the Scriptures were not copied into his 
sermons, but were found, and read in the pulpit, as occasion 
demanded. Mr. Judd was a very wise counsellor in difficult 
circumstances. In theology, he coincided with the New 
England ministers, generally, of his day. On the points in 
dispute between Mr. Edwards of Northampton and his oppo- 
nents, pertaining to the admission of members to the church, 
or the Half-way Covenant, so called, Mr. Judd differed from 
Mr. Edwards, and both believed and practised in accordance 
with the views defended by Mr. Stoddard. He was a mem- 



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ber of the council that dismissed Mr. Edwards, and voted 
with the majority. Still, he possessed, by no means, the spirit 
of a partizan. He was uniformly mild and conciliating in 
the statement of his opinions. It is said, that the father of 
the late Mr. Daniel Kingsley, and one or two others, who 
removed from Northampton, and who strongly sympathized 
with President Edwards, were, notwithstanding, the attentive 
hearers and cordial friends of Mr. Judd. 

From the imperfect records, which we possess, of Mr. 
Judd's labors, he appears to have been a successful minister. 
The church increased in numbers from time to time, and it 
was favored with the special influences of the Holy Spirit. 
About the year 1761, or 1762, there was a happy revival of 
religion. Between May and December, 1762, more than 
thirty persons were added to the church. The same Divine 
influence was experienced in 1766, and 1770. In the year 
1785, an uncommon attention was given to religious subjects. 
Twenty-four persons united with the church. In the year 
1797, the grace of the Holy Spirit in the conversion of men 
was once more witnessed, just before the time-worn and 
venerable shepherd of the flock was called to his eternal 
rest. During the year, twenty-two individuals became com- 
municants. 

The whole number that joined the church, during the ac- 
tive ministry of Mr. Judd, was 442. Some of them had 
been previously members of other churches. Nearly all of 
the sixty-three original members, were dismissed from the 
church in Northampton. The number of baptisms during 
Mr. Judd's ministry was 1034. The number of deaths, from 
the settlement of the town to the close of Mr. Judd's ministry, 
has been estimated at 440. The number of births, in the 
same period, was about 1550. The first birth in the town 
was a child of Joshua Clark. The first individual who died 
was Simeon Wait, aged 19 years. This was in 1738. His 
death was occasioned by drinking cold water. His remains 



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were the first which were interred in the present central 
burying-ground. 

The Rev. Vinson Gould was settled as colleague pastor 
with Mr. Judd, Aug. 26, 1801. During the brief remnant 
of Mr. Judd's life, the aged veteran, and he, who was gird- 
ing on his armor, lived and labored on terms of the most 
perfect esteem and cordiality. 

Those events, which pertain to the civil history of the 
town, and which occun^ed during Mr. Gould's connection 
with the church, it is not necessary for me to detail. Such 
of them, as might be important enough for rehearsal, are well 
known to many who hear me. It may be said, in general, 
that the proceedings of the town, were characterized by an 
uncommon degree of harmony. This was especially the 
case during the last war with Great Britain, and the stirring 
events which preceded and followed it.* 

The attention which was early given to the subject of 
common schools lias been before alluded to. The same in- 
terest in this vitally important institution has been exhibited 
in subsequent years. The happy influence which Mr. Gould 
exerted in his visits to the schools, and the facility with 
which he could adapt his remarks to the capacities of those 
whom he addressed, has been acknowledged by every one 
acquainted with the circumstances. The select, voluntary 
schools, which were taught, almost from the commencement 
of the present century to the establishment of the academy, 
with some interruptions, have furnished opportunities for the 
more complete education which was commenced in the pri- 
mary department. The erection of the Sheldon Academy, 
mainly through the munificence of Mr. Silas Sheldon,f has 
been productive of results, thus far sufficiently valuable, great- 
ly to outweigh the expenses incident to the undertaking. 
Instead of being an hindrance to the common school, such 
a seminary is in every way, an auxiliary and supporter. 

* See Note F. f See Note G. 



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In these schools, the individuals, now numbering almost 
half a hundred, began the course which they prosecuted at 
college, and finished with the professional teacher or institu- 
tion ; and most of whom are now alive, and actively enga- 
ged in the responsible duties of their different vocations.* 
The county of Hampshire has furnished more students for 
college, with possibly a single exception, than any other 
county in the United States. The town of Southampton, 
it may be said, without any undue exultation, is in this re- 
spect at the head of the county. In that which is paramount 
to all things merely political or social, it is the banner town, 
of the banner county, of the banner State. Of these forty- 
six individuals, thirty-seven are now living. Thirty-two are, 
or have been, ministers of the gospel. Those who are pas- 
tors, (I may say it without offence, not being one of them), 
are laboring, or have labored, with distinguished zeal and 
success, in the most honorable function committed to man. 
This town, and this church of Christ, have thus been the means 
of proclaiming the messages of life to thousands, and of 
guiding multitudes to mansions of rest. This is an honor 
which might well be coveted by any town or church in the 
country, however flourishing in wealth or numbers. 

It may, possibly, be objected by some persons, that there 
has been an excess of a good thing. Too many have receiv- 
ed a public education. The learned professions are already 
crowded. By withdrawing young men from agricultural and 
other manual labor, they have been unfitted to resume it when 
necessary ; or they have cherished prejudices against the 
working classes in society. Even the aged parents, who have 
toiled early and late, in order to support their son in college 
have not received from him always that consideration to 
which they were entitled. 

But such incapacity, or waywardness, is not the effect of a 
liberal education, but of the want of it. One, who has been 

* See Note H. 



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properly taught, looks with contempt on no class of his fellow 
creatures. True learning will make him considerate, fair- 
minded and charitable. Airs of self-importance, the con- 
temptuous look, pride in any of its forms, are as abhorrent to 
the genuine scholar, as they are detestable in their own na- 
ture. Knowledge does not alienate from hard manual toil. 
It rather fits one for it, and predisposes to it. We wish every 
farmer in the country could enjoy the benefits of a liberal 
education. There is no necessary discrepancy between a 
man who works with his head, and him who works with his 
hands. It is for the general good, indeed, that the profes- 
sions should be kept distinct. A minister has his work, and 
a mechanic has his. But there need be no hostility between 
them. We know a body of most skilful mechanics, who are 
accustomed to sharpen their minds by reasoning on theologi- 
cal doctrines. Every advance in knowledge, which the tiller 
of the soil makes, adds happiness to himself and dignity to 
his pursuit. It is time that the wretched nonsense about 
the hostility of difterent classes was done with. They are all 
working classes — all producing classes. 

Mr. Gould was dismissed from his pastoral relation with 
this church, on the 5th of January, 1832, after a ministry of 
thirty-one years. The present pastor, Rev. Morris E. White, 
was ordained on the 20th of June, 1832. Mr. Gould was 
born in Sharon, Connecticut, August 1st, 1774. He was 
the eldest son of a numerous family. His parents were high- 
ly respected, and eminently pious. In June, 1795, he join- 
ed the Sophomore class in Williams College. During his 
connection with that Seminary, the serious impressions, which 
he had for some time cherished, ripened into personal piety. 
He graduated in 1797. Among the members of his class, 
which was the third which left that institution, was the Hon. 
Elijah H. Mills, afterwards a senator in Congress. Having 
superintended an academy in Sharon, thirteen months, he be- 
gan the study of divinity with the Rev. Dr. Backus of Som- 



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ers, Ct. He was licensed to preach in June, 1799. From 
Oct. 1800 till June 1801, he acted as a Tutor in Williams 
College. He then came to this town to preach as a candi- 
date for settlement. He was ordained on the 26th of Aug. 
1801. The sermon on the occasion was preached by Dr. 
Backus. In 1808, he was married to Miss Mindwell Wood- 
bridge, only daughter of Dr. Sylvester Woodbridge of this 
town. They had six children, one son and five daughters, 
all of whom are living. Mrs. Gould died in Nov. 1837, 
greatly and most deservedly lamented. She was a lady of 
high excellence in moral and religious character, and of ex- 
traordinary powers of mind. For vigor of intellect no wo- 
man in this part of the country, within our knowledge, has 
surpassed her. 

Mr. Gould, after his dismission from this church, taught a 
school in South Hadley. He subsequently preached, for 
some time, in Bernardston, and other places. He died at 
his residence, in this town, on the 4th of April, 1841, in the 
68th year of his age. His labors while pastor here were 
abundant, and his success was corresponding. In the year 
of his settlement, twenty-one persons were added to the 
church. In 1805, there was an extraordinary revival of re- 
ligion. The power of the Holy Spirit, in the conversion of 
men, was never, in this place, more signally manifested. 
Eighty were added to the church. Many others were hope- 
fully converted. In 1812 and 1813, fifteen persons joined 
the church as the fruits of a revival of religion. The same 
Divine influence was enjoyed in 1815 and 1816, when the 
church received an addition of fifty-six members. At seve- 
ral periods subsequently, the preaching of the gospel was fol- 
lowed by marked and auspicious results. In such seasons, 
Mr. Gould's mode of dispensing the truth was singularly 
plain and solemn, and, sometimes, very striking. 

The most remarkable trait in Mr. Gould's intellectual 
powers, was the rapidity of their movement. This was 
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manifest in his various performances, written and extempore, 
and, perhaps, most of all, in his conversation. It seemed to 
have been owing to several causes. His passions, which 
are the great motive power of the intellect, were easily arous- 
ed, and were capable of great intensity. He had, also, un- 
common readiness of apprehension. When a subject came 
before him, he seized instantly on its main features, and 
while others were laboriously tracing its relations, he had 
arrived at his results. The imperceptibly rapid glance of 
his eye was an index of the swifter intellectual movement 
within. He had, also, the ability to present an object vividly 
before the mind. He seized the most striking incidents, and 
pourtrayed them in such a manner, that they left a perma- 
nent impression. If he had been in circumstances, which 
would have compelled him to cultivate and mature these 
original tendencies, he would have, unquestionably, reached 
a very high rank among those who move the minds of men. 
A wider range of reading, and more exact habits of compo- 
sition would have made the original traits, of which we 
speak, still more obvious. 

Mr. Gould was a good classical scholar. He retained, 
through life, a familiar acquaintance with the authors he had 
studied in college ; adding, also, some to the list. In this 
way, he made himself very useful to not a few, who com- 
menced with him their elementary studies in Latin and 
Greek. As a teacher, he possessed kindness and prompti- 
tude ; ever ready to appreciate difficulties, while he had the 
firmness to require that the pupil should be master of his 
lessons. 

Mr. Gould was cordially attached to the evangelical sys- 
tem of religious truth. The great doctrines of the gospel 
were the life of his preaching and the life of his soul. He 
would not allow them to be set aside or undervalued. He 
was steadfastly opposed to tendencies which, as he thought, 
went to undermine them. He had little patience with any 



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speculations, which threatened to obscure their brightness, 
or abridge their saving efficacy. They lay at the foundation 
of his own prospects for eternity, and they were the only 
hope of a lost world. 

But his faith wrought by works, and by works was made 
perfect. His preaching was eminently practical. He spoke 
to men, plainly, on themes which they are so apt to oppose 
or neglect. In many revivals of religion, he toiled as one 
who meant to work while it was the day of harvest, and to 
stand at last with acceptance before his Judge. His preach- 
ing was not merely in the house of God. By the way-side, 
in fields, on journeys, in public conveyances, he delivered, 
habitually and conscientiously, his message. His faith, too, 
sustained him amid the many trials of his eventful life. In 
the agonies of a fierce and inexorable disease, with the cer- 
tain prospect of a speedy death, and while many things 
made it pleasant for him to live, this faith bore him above 
the pains of mortality. It, doubtless, cheered his soul, when 
it became insensible to outward scenes, and when it stood 
before its Creator and Judge, naked and alone. Beyond a 
doubt, he is now shining as the brightness of the firmament, 
with the multitudes whom he turned to righteousness. 

The number of births in the town, from its settlement to 
the present time, cannot be ascertained with certainty. Some 
estimates were made by the Rev. Mr. Gould, an abstract of 
which, together with a few additions, is here subjoined. 

From Mr. Judd's settlement to the year 1775, there were 
not far from 640 births. It is known that from 1775 to 1793 
inclusive, there were 608 births, or thirty-two, on an average, 
annually. From 1793 to 1832, the close of Mr. Gould's 
ministry, the number of births was about 1230. The num- 
ber of births from 1832 to the present time is estimated at 
255. The total of births, therefore, since the settlement of 
the town, is 2,733. In these statements no regard is had to 



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those parts of the town which have been set off to other 
towns. In 1785, a number of famihes were connected with 
Easthampton, when that place was erected into ,a District. 
The north hne of Southampton was, previously, a little north 
of Easthampton meeting-house. 

The number of deaths in the town, from its settlement to 
1820, was about 813. During the following twelve years, 
the whole number of deaths was about 234. Since Mr. 
White's settlement, 188 persons have died; making the 
whole number 1,235, a few more than the present population 
of the town.* 

The whole number of members of the church, since its or- 
ganization to the present time, is 1,319. The number that 
joined it, during Mr. Judd's active ministry, was 442 ; while 
Mr. Gould was pastor, 715 ; since Mr. White was ordained, 
162. The present number of members is 397 .f 

One of the most striking lessons which the observance of 
this day teaches, is veneration for the character of our fathers. 

We do not attribute perfection to them. They had, with- 
out doubt, their share of infirmities. There was in some of 
them an incongruous union of qualities — a strange mingling 
of the grave and the light — a disposition to indulge in witti- 
cism, or somewhat gross raillery, on the most solemn occa- 
sions. Some of their social customs, we should not wish to 
revive. The multiplication of libraries, schools, lyceums, and 
the like, have furnished our generation with better sources of 
amusement, than were prevalent eighty or fifty years ago. 

But after making every allowance which truth would de- 
mand, there remain sterling qualities, which we cannot but 
admire. 

They were bound together by strong affection. For sixty 
or seventy years, nothing occurred seriously to interrupt their 
harmony. There were differences in theological opinion 

* See Note I. t See Note J. 



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among them ; but these never interfered with christian fel- 
lowship. In other places, there were ecclesiastical wars. 
The old town, where their fathers lived, was the field of fierce 
encounter ; but there was no commotion in the new precinct. 
In many towns in Connecticut, the old and new lights fought 
each other with desperate malignity ; but no party was form- 
ed here. Our fathers had one church, one faith, one baptism, 
and but one. 

We reverence them for the general soundness of their 
faith.* The great truths of the gospel were embraced with 
singular earnestness. Our fathers were rooted and ground- 
ed in them. We recollect some venerable men of the second 
generation, who have but just descended to the grave, who 
had the most intelligent conviction of the doctrines of the 
Bible, and the warmest attachment to them. They used to 
speak of the conversions, which occurred in their youthful 
days, as the result, so far as human agency was concerned, of 
long continued, personal, solitary application to the truth. 
With them, feeling flowed from contemplation. Anxiety of 
mind was caused by clear apprehension of their duties to- 
wards God. They had but few books, and the large quarto 
Bible, with the family register in the middle, was the one 
great and inestimable treasure in every house. Their books 
were Boston's Fourfold State, the Berry Street Sermons, 
Flavel's Touchstone, Stoddard's Safety of Appearing in the 
Righteousness of Christ, Ruth's Resolutions, and the like. 
These volumes were thoroughly read and digested. Every 
leaf bore the marks, possibly caused by the tear of some ven- 
erable octogenarian, of the earnest perusal, perhaps of several 
successive generations. Our fathers listened, not merely 
without weariness, but with great delight, to the protracted 
three hours' service of the sanctuary ; intending to carry 
away, not a momentary impression, produced by an impassion- 

* One or two of the following paragraphs have been inserted by the 
author in a periodical publication. 



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ed hortatory appeal, but the substance of the long sermon, 
with its scores of divisions and subdivisions. 

The piety of the first settlers of this town was distinguished, 
even in that period. All the heads of families, who came 
from Northampton between the years 1733 and 1740, had 
heard sermons, which, for a searching and experimental char- 
acter, have never been equalled in this country, before or 
since. They went to the depths of the soul. The young 
women, who kept lonely watch, many long days in their log- 
house, with a single room, had learned their lessons of faith 
and patience with the prince of New England preachers ; or 
while listening to the burning strains of Whitefield. The 
emigration to this town took place, when the parent settle- 
ment was pervaded, almost saturated by religious influence. 
The church and the precinct were entirely coincident. The 
civil and the religious community were one, almost to a man. 
Prayer went up from the town-meeting and the church con- 
ference alike. 

It is a common saying, that for the settlement of New 
England, three kingdoms were sifted. On a smaller scale, 
we may say, that for the settlement of this place, the mother 
town was sifted. The choicest grains of wheat were trans- 
planted to the south side of Manhan river. In one respect 
this was certainly true. As a matter of course, the young 
men of most enterprise and character, would commence a 
new plantation. Several inefficient individuals tried the ex- 
periment, but soon went back to the comfortable dwellings 
and rich meadows at Northampton. It was really a removal 
involving great hardship. It is exceedingly difficult for us 
to realize the severity of the privations, which must have 
been endured. In several respects a removal to Wiskonsan 
now, would incur less self-denial. It would be somewhat like 
a residence, at the present time, on the borders of Florida. 
The burning of Deerfield, the butchery at Bloody Brook, the 
rough scenes at Sudbury, Brookfield and other places, were 



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fresh in the recollection. The forest, for eight or ten miles, 
was almost unbroken. The roads and bridges were few in 
number, and poor in construction. Convenient modes of 
conveyance were the invention of a much later period. The 
country, too, was involved in almost constant war. There 
were hardly ten years, of what might be termed peace, from 
the time in which this town was settled, till 1782. The 
French and Indian wars had not ceased, before the encroach- 
ments of Great Britain on her colonies had commenced. 
With the return of peace, after'the Revolution, prosperity did 
not return. The distresses were greater than ever, until the 
Federal Constitution was adopted. The first half century of 
the existence of this town was, tlierefore, a period demanding 
constant self-denial, and often large and heavy contributions. 
Yet all these burdens were borne without a murmur. Taxes 
were cheerfully submitted to, which would now require an 
armed force to collect. Thirty families, — a population 
smaller and poorer, than some of the present school-districts, — 
cut down the forests, erected dwellings, built a house for the 
service of God, gave a liberal salary to a minister, defended 
themselves against the Indians, sent their minute-men to al- 
most every battle-field of three wars, from Louisburg to the 
White Plains ; and when all were over, had nothing to con- 
sole themselves with but heavier taxes and continental 
money ! 

Surely such ancestors are entitled to our reverential regard. 
Nobly they bore up, under their complicated difficulties. 
We can do nothing less than record, in our poor manner, 
their heroic deeds, and their calm and christian fortitude. 

Heartfelt thankfulness is due, also, to the beneficent Pro- 
vidence that sustained them, and made them what they 
were. We have entered into their labors. We are reaping 
the fruits of that seed which they sowed in blood. Our in- 
heritance was hard-earned. It is the fruit of care-worn and 
sleepless vigilance ; of toil and sacrifice of which we have 



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but feeble conception. We are stewards of God's mani- 
fold gifts. We are living on the character and prayers of 
those who went before us. They supplied sterling capital 
for their children, and their childrens' children. 

Let us act, therefore, in no mercenary spirit ; rioting on 
bounties which we had no agency in procuring ; enjoying 
privileges, which come to us, like the light of Heaven, un- 
solicited. When we speak of what our fathers did — of the 
civil and religious institutions which they contributed to plant, 
we do not use idle words. They have a meaning which 
our indolent minds and our insensible hearts are not apt to 
comprehend nor feel. When the acknowledgement of the 
independence of the United States was wrung from George 
the Third, he said, that he hoped, that the experiment, 
which we were going to try, would prove successful ; but he 
did not believe that constitutional liberty could be enjoyed, 
except in connection with a monarchical government. A 
trial of sixty years has shown that George the Third was 
mistaken. Our system of government has attained that per- 
fection, that we do not perceive its movement. We spend 
months, it may be, hardly conscious that we live under any 
legal restraint, — all things move on so noiselessly. Every 
man, almost, is a law unto himself. It is only on rare occa- 
sions, that the slumbering statute shows itself. We are pro- 
tected by its invisible shield. We need to be transported, for 
a few weeks, into Austria or Spain, in order to realize, in 
any proper degree, the extent of our privileges. A short ex- 
perience in either of those countries would give some energy 
to our gratitude, some sincerity to our thanksgiving. We are 
accustomed lazily to bless God, that we may meet together 
on tlie Sabbath unmolested. Were we in Scotland, this mo- 
ment, perhaps the most favored country in Europe, we might 
change our note of praise into earnest entreaty, that God 
would not permit our dearest religious privileges to lie at the 
mercy of some godless politician, or worldly-minded court. \ 



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Yes, a solemn trust is put into our keeping. We are 
bound by every motive, which can touch the heart of man, 
to be faithful to it, and transmit it untarnished, to those who 
who shall come after us. If we could open the graves of a 
hundred years, and interrogate the sleepers there, what voices 
of encouragement, what notes of expostulation should we 
hear ! all urging us to the performance of our duty, warning 
us by their failures, animating us by their own noble deeds. 
An assembly, greater than that which now hears me, would, 
if the veil, which hides the invisible world, were, for a mo- 
ment, withdrawn, speak to us in tones such as only the dead 
can use. 

Say not that you are a little community, but one out of 
three hundred in a great Commonwealth ; that it matters 
little what course you take. Your influence, as an organized 
society, or, as individuals, can be but slight. Whatever be 
your course, others will not be much affected by it. 

Such was not the way in which our sainted progenitors 
reasoned. The men, from whom we claim descent, talked 
and acted in no such selfish style. They were filled with 
concern for their distant posterity. They laid foundations, 
which, if we are not wickedly degenerate, will last for ages. 
Out of their deep poverty, the riches of their liberality 
abounded towards us their children. 

On you, indeed, rests a different responsibility. You can- 
not, however much you might long to do it, help them in 
their wearisome labor, and in their wasting anxieties. There 
is no call to send succor to the poor in Boston, straitly shut 
up by a siege, nor to the soldiers in the camp at Cambridge. 
You are not obliged to wade fifteen miles through a deep 
snow, to hear tidings from a brother or husband in a prison 
at Quebec, or in an old hulk at New York. Other obliga- 
tions press on you. Be not recreant to them. Your time is 
brief. The years in which to act are fast rolling away. An- 
other century now begins. Long before it shall have finished 

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its round, you will have joined the silent congregation. So 
live, that when the second solemn festival of this nature shall 
return, your descendants shall look back to you with tearful 
gratitude ; shall remember you with such affection as we bear 
to our good old fathers ; shall gather around your wasting 
dust, and bless God, that they were descended from men 
who were not degenerate, who lived for their children and 
their childrens' children. 



APPENDIX. 



NOTE A. p. 11. 

We here subjoin a few notices, compiled from various sources, of 
the thirty original settlers of Southampton. 

Jonathan Bascom. Thomas Bascom came from the north of En- 
gland about the year 1650, and settled at Northampton. He married 
Mary Baldwin, who died Feb. 3, 1676. He died Sept. 11, 1689. He 
had two sons, Thomas and John. Thomas married Hannah Catlin, 
who survived him many years, and died in 1747. He died Feb. 3, 
1714. They had four sons and four daughters. One of the daughters, 
Mary, married Noah Sheldon, who removed to Southampton. Jona- 
than, one of the sons, and the original settler of Southampton, married 
Mindwell King. He died April 20, 1780, aged 74. His wife decea- 
sed April 4, 1789, aged 89. Their children were Jonathan, Elishaand 
Rachel. Elisha married Lucy Sheldon, daughter of Israel Sheldon, 
and sister of the late Silas Sheldon. He died in the service of his 
country, at Ticonderoga, Sept. 18, 1776, aged 37. He was lieutenant 
of a company of militia. He was a brave soldier, and a highly re- 
spected citizen. His widow died March 15, 1810, aged 67. Their 
children were Irena, King, Elisha, Lucy, Asenath and Naomi. King 
died Dec. 4, 1827, aged 6S. Jonathan Bascom's house (the first set- 
tler) stood on the lot afterwards owned by Perez Clap, now by Mr. 
Graves. 

Samuel Burt. Henry Burt removed fi'om Roxbury to Springfield, 
soon after the settlement of the latter. His son, David, was one of 
the settlers of Northampton. He had a son Henry ; and Henry, a son 
David, who was the father of Samuel, who removed to Southampton. 
His I'esidence was in the place where his son, the late Dea. Samuel 
Burt lived and died, and which is now owned by Stephen E. Searl, 
Samuel senior was one of the leading men in the affairs of the town 
for many years. In the revolutionary times, he was an ardent whig. 
Dea. Samuel Burt was the father of the three ministers by the name 
of Biut, mentioned in a subsequent note. 

Roger Clap. The Memoirs of Capt. Roger Clap, one of the fh-st 
settlers of Dorchester, are well known. Among his sons are the names 
of Preserved, Hopestill and Desire. One of his daughters was named 
Wait. He died Feb. 2, 1691, aged 81. Preserved was one of the 
early settlers of Northampton, and died Sept. 20, 1720, aged about 77 
years. His son, Rogei-, had a son of the same name, who was one of 



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the settlers of Southampton. He resided where Mrs. Arunah Searl 
now lives. His son Joel, who is referred to on p. 23, lived to an old 
age, and had treasured up, in a retentive memoiy, a multitude of local 
facts. 

Aaron Clark. William Clark lived many years in Dorchester, 
and thence removed to Northampton. His son John had six sons, viz. 
John, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Increase, Noah and Josiah. Three of the 
Clarks, who emigrated to Southampton, Jonathan, Joseph and Selah, 
were sons of Nathaniel ; Aaron, Elisha and Dea. John, were sons of 
John. Timothy, who settled later in Southampton, and who was, for 
some time, town clerk, was a son of Noah. John Clark, one of the 
settlers of Springfield, was not related to William Clark of Northamp- 
ton. There were Clarks at Hartford, Windsor, Hadley, etc. contem- 
pory with William, but it is not known that there was any relationship 
between them. 

Aaron Clai-k lived where the late Hiram Clark lived and died. 

Elisha Clark built a house a few rods west of the house where 
Oliver Clark now lives, on the opposite side of the road. The cir- 
cumstances of his death are mentioned p. 19. 

Dea. JoHiv Clark resided on the place where the late Gains Ly- 
man lived. He was nmcli esteemed as a citizen, as well as an officer 
in the church. 

Jonathan Clark lived in a house opposite to that formerly owned 
by Calvin Torrey. 

Joseph Clark built a house a few rods east of the house where 
Asa Searl lives. Soon after he came to this town, his Avife died. This 
affliction so discouraged him, that he removed to Northampton, and 
never returned here. His place was taken by his brother, 

Selah Clark, who was numbered, instead of Joseph, as one of the 
original thirty settlers. Selah and his wife died within fourteen days 
of each other, in Nov. 1806, he being 90 years and eight months old, 
and she 91 years and four months. 

Samuel Danks was descended fi'om the Robert Danks who was 
one of the first settlers of Nashawannuck, in Easthampton (p. 9.) He 
lived in a house which stood a few rods east of the house of the late 
Moses Danks, now occupied by Simeon Lyman and Schuyler Shel- 
don. The name is noAV very uncommon. 

Ebenezer French was a son of Jonathan French of Northamp- 
ton, and a grandson of John French, who removed, as it is conjectured, 
fi-om Rehoboth, Ms. to Northampton. He was connected with the 
Kingsleys. Ebenezer lived in a house which stood thirty or forty 
rods north of the house of the widow of James Thorp. 

Eleazar Hannum. William Hannum settled in Windsor, Ct., and 
thence removed to Northampton. He had a son John, and a grand- 
son John, who was the father of the settler at Southampton. He lived 
on the place where Gilbert Bascom now resides. 

JuDAH Hutchinson was a son of Judah Hutchinson, and a grand- 
son of Ralph Hutchinson, who came to Northampton from Dorches- 



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ter, Jiidah Hutchinson was a tailor. He lived in a house, a few rods 
east from that now owned Ipy Ephraim Marsh. His dwelling and that 
of Thomas Porter, were the first erected in the town. 

Phineas King was a sou of Joseph King, and a grandson of John 
King, who came from Northampton in England to Northampton, Ms., 
and married a daughter of a Dea. Holton. Phineas King resided, as 
did, also, his son Dea. Douglas King, in a house which stood between 
the street, and the house built by Lemon Gridley, now owned by He- 
man Searl. Joseph King, a brother of Phineas, was accidentally kil- 
led while hunting, by Samuel Burt. 

Ebenezer Kingslet. Enos Kingsley came from Dorchester to 
Northampton. His father, John, seems to have lived, at a later period, 
at Rehoboth. Enos had a son John, who was the father of Ebenezer. 
The latter resided near the house, which was occupied, many years, 
by the late Rev. Mr. Gould; now by widow Kingsley. His son, and 
sergeant Eliakim Wright, whom Mr. Judd calls " two hopeful and 
valuable young men," are referred to on p. 23. Ebenezer senior, was, 
for many years, precinct clerk, and afterwards town clerk. He was, 
also, a school teacher. He appears to have been among the most use- 
fid men in the town. 

Elias Lyman. Richard, John and Robert Lyman were among the 
first settlers of Northampton, where tlie name has continueil, with re- 
putation, to the present time. " Their father might have been," says 
Mr. Farmer, " Richard Lyman, who was admitted freeman in Massa- 
chusetts, in 1633." Elias Lyman was the son of Elias, the grandson 
of Moses, the great grandson of Moses, and the great great grandson 
of John, mentioned above. He lived where his grandsons Joel and 
Isaac Lyman now reside. He was a very prominent actor in the af- 
fairs of the town and of the church. 

Nathan Lyman was the son of John Lyman and the grandson of 
Richard, alluded to in the first line of the last paragraph. He built 
a house near where Samuel Lyman now resides. His nephew, the 
late Dea. John Lyman, was born at Fort Dummer, and removed from 
Northfield to SouthaJiipton. 

John Miller. After residhig some years in Southampton, he re- 
turned to the old town. His house is supposed to have been near the 
residence of Royal Burt. He was a descendant of William Miller, 
one of the first settlers of Northampton, who removed, as Mr. Farmer 
conjectures, from Ipswich to North Hampton. 

Noah Pixley. William Pixley lived sometime at Northampton, but, 
for the most part, at Westfield, where he died in 1689. He had a 
son Thomas, wlio was the father of Noah. The latter resided where 
Rainsford Root now does. The circumstances of his death are allu- 
ded to p. 19. 

Thomas Porter was the son of Robert Porter of Northampton. 
He made preparations to build a house on two or three localities near 
the house of Elisha Edwards. A part of the dwelling which he erect- 
ed is now the S. W. corner room, lower story, of the house of E. Ed- 



4d 

wards. His house and farm were purchased by Dea. Samuel Ed- 
wards senior, who removed to Southampton in 1753. Mr. Porter 
then retired to a place a little south of Gamaliel Pomeroy's house, 
where he died. Jeliiel Porter Avas his son. 

Elias Root. Thomas Root, who settled in Northampton, came 
from Hartford, where he lived many years. He may have been the 
Thomas Root who lived in Salem in 16.37. Elias Root built a house 
nearly opposite that of Lysander B. Bates. 

Stephen Root lived in the same house with his brother Elias. Af- 
ter some time, he removed to Northampton, where he remained. 

Nathaniel Searl. John Searl, one of the settlers of Sjjringfield, 
died in that town, Jan. 1642. His widow, originally Mary Baldwin, 
was married to Alexander Edwards, who removed from Springfield to 
Northampton, and who was the ancestor of the various families of that 
name in Northampton, Southampton and Westhampton. John Searl 
left one son, John, who came with his father-in-law, Edwards, to 
Northampton. John had a son Nathaniel, who was the father of Na- 
thaniel, the settler at Southampton. One of the brothers of the latter had 
a son, John, who was a clergyman. Nathaniel Searl's house stood a num- 
ber of rods south of the house of Zophar Searl, on the same side of 
the road. He had nine sons, and for that reason, perhaps, built a 
house with tivo rooms, the only dwelling in the town that had more 
than one room for ten or fifteen years. He furnished boarding for the 
ministers who preached in the town prior to 31r. Judd's settlement, 
and entertainment for the council that ordained Mi". Judd. His de- 
scendants are very numerous. 

Israel Sheldon. The Sheldons, Israel, Noah and Stephen, were 
sons of Ebenezer Sheldon, and grandsons of Isaac Sheldon of North- 
ampton. The family removed from Dorchester to Windsor, and a 
branch of it thence to Northampton. Israel Sheldon lived where Ab- 
ner Sheldon now does. 

Noah Sheldon resided in a house thirty or forty rods north of that 
of the late Ralph Edwards. 

Stephen Sheldon lived where his grandson, Rodolphus Sheldon, 
now does. 

Ezra Strong. Elder John Strong came, in 1630, to this country 
in company with Messrs. Warham, Maverick and others. From Dor- 
chester, he removed to Windsor, Ct. in 163.5 or 16.36, and thence to 
Northampton in 1659, where he died in 1590, aged 94, sustaining a 
high reputation for wisdom and piety. He married his second wife, 
Abigail Ford, in Dorchester, in 1630. His father's najue was Richard. 
He had eighteen children. Five of the sons, viz. Jedidiah, Ebenezer, 
Samuel, Josiah and Jerijah appear to have been residents of North- 
ampton. The late Gov. Strong was descended from Ebenezei-, and 
Judge Simeon Strong of Amherst from Samuel. It is not known 
from which of these sons Ezra Strong descended. His house stood 
near the one (now demolished) owned by the late Israel Sheldon, and 
nearly opposite to the house of A Ivan Bates. He died in 1748, and 



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his father came from Northampton, and removed the widow and her 
children to the old town. 

IcHABOD Strong was the son of Jonathan, whose father was Ebe- 
nezer, above mentioned. His house was a few rods soutli of the 
house of the late Gaius Lyman. 

Dea. Waitstill Strong was the son of Waitstill, whose father, 
Thomas Strong, was one of Elder John Strong's children. His dwell- 
ing was a few rods east of the house of the late Jonathan Judd, Flsq. 

John Wait lived on what is now known by the name of the " Wait 
Farm." He was the son of John Wait, whose father, William Wait, 
came to Northamjiton in 1680, and married a Kingsley. His origin 
is not known. 

Moses Wright lived in a house a few rods south of that of Luther 
Loomis. He was the son of Preserved Wright, the grandson of James 
Wright and the great gi-andson of Samuel Wright. The last named 
was one of the fii'st settlers of Springfield, and, subsequently, of North- 
ampton. Moses Wright died, unmarried, in 1748. 

NOTE B. p. 23. 

On the 13th of May, 1704, O. S., the Indians attacked the village of 
Paskhomuck, now in Easthampton, and killed nineteen persons, six 
adults and thirteen children. About twenty years afterwards, Nathaniel 
Edwards, jr. of Northampton, was killed by the Indians, as he was wa- 
tering his team, at the small stream of water, north of Lorenzo Clapp's 
house in Easthampton. Another person was wounded. The houses 
of Joseph Bartlett and Samuel Janes were fortified in the Indian wars, 
and were used as watch-houses. 

NOTE C. p. 26. 

Dr. Woodbridge did not abuse the trust which was reposed in him, 
by the town, nor disappoint the expectations which were formed of 
him. He was a skilful and conscientious physician, and enjoyed au 
extensive practice for many years. He was a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society. He married Mindwell Strong of Northamp- 
ton. Their children were Mrs. Gould, John Woodbridge, D. D. of 
New Hartford, Ct., and Rev. Sylvester Woodbridge. 

NOTE D. p. 27. 

From Dea. Thomas Judd, all of that name in New England have 
descended. He probably came to this country in the company of 
Rev. Thomas Hooker, He removed to Hartford, (it is supposed, with 
Mr. Hooker and others), in 1636. He lived there a few years, and 
then settled in Farmington. He was the first deputy from that town 
to the General Court. After the death of his wife, he removed to 
Northampton, and married the widow of Thomas Mason. He died 



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in Northampton, Nov. 12, 1686, being above eighty years of age. He 
had nine children. 

William Judd, the second son of the preceding, was born about 
1635, or 1636. He married Mary Steel, March 30, 1658. He died in 
1690; his widow in 1718. They had seven children. 

Thomas Judd, oldest son of William, was born in 1663. He mar- 
ried Sarah Freeman, Feb. 9, 1688. He had eight children. He was 
a captain in the militia, and deacon in the church, in Waterbury, Ct. 
He died Jan. 4, 1747, aged eighty-three. His wife died Sept. 28, 1738. 

William Judd, eldest son of Thomas, married Mary Root, Jan. 31, 
1713. They had nine cliildren. She died Dec. 10, 1751. He had a 
second wife. He died Jan. 29, 1772, aged 82. 

NOTE E. p. 27. 

The children of Mi*. Judd were, 

Jonathan, born Oct. 7, 1744, died Jan. 30, 1819. 

Silence, " Dec. 16, 1750, " Sept. 9, 1839. 

Sylvester, " Dec. 1, 1752, « Sept. 19, 1S32. 

Sarah, " July 12, 1755, " March 24, 1837. 

Solomon, " Jan. 26, 1758, " Nov. 8, 1830. 

Frederick, " Jan. 29, 1760, " May 23, 1840. 

Clarissa " Oct. 2, 1764, " Aug. 8, 1337. 
Silence was the wife of Dea. Samuel Edwards of Westhampton ; 
Sarah, of Mr. Timothy Clark of Southampton ; and Clarissa, of Mr. 
Luther Edwards of Southampton. 

NOTE F. p. 30. 

Among those who were engaged in the eight months service at 
Cambridge in 1775, were Capt. Abner Pomeroy, Serj. Lemuel Rust, 
Serj. Gershom Pomeroy, Corp. Stephen Clap, Corp. Samuel Edwards 
and Corp. Ezekiel Wood, together with fourteen privates. Stephen 
Clap, born 1749, (brother of Rogei",) died of a fever near Boston, Aug. 
1775. Ebenezer Gee, one of the privates, went on the Quebec expe- 
dition. 

Obadiah Frary of Southampton was killed and scalped by the In- 
dians, Aug. 1777, on a retreat to Stillwater from Moses' Creek, near 
Fort Edward. Elisha Edwards was in his company. Stephen Shel- 
don, brother of Simeon, died in a wagon, in Gates's army. Dea. Ros- 
well Strong was with him. Darius Searl, brother of David, died in 
the service, probably on Long Island. Aaron Strong, (father of Aaron 
Strong who died suddenly, July 1841,) was killed by a cannon ball, in 
an intrenchment at Saratoga. Oliver Pomeroy, a son of Capt. Abner 
Pomeroy, died in the service near the close of the war. It is believed, 
that a young man, by the name of Hall, a son of John Hall, also died 
in the army. In June, 1779, the General Court ordered a reinforce- 
ment for the Continental army. The proportion of S. Hampton was 



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six soldiers. At another time, the following soldiers from Southamp' 
ton were engaged in the service, Serj. Jacob Pomeroy, Joseph Bart- 
lett, Elisha Bundy, Samuel Coleman, Silas Pomeroy, Gad Pomeroy, 
Noble Squires and Phineas Searl ; the last named was in Capt. John 
Carpenter's company ; the others wei-e in Capt. Ebenezer Pomeroy's 
company. 

Gad Clark was attacked with sickness, while he was in the army, 
and died soon after he reached home. 

NOTE G. p. 30. 

Mr. Silas Sheldon was one of the most liberal men, his means being 
considered, whom we have ever known. He acquired his property by 
hard personal labor on an uninviting farm. He gave in his life-time 
$1000 to the Hampshire Education Society, $1000 to Amherst college, 
and between $2000 and $3000 to form the academy which bears his 
name, besides smaller donations to many other objects. To a num- 
ber of young men, preparing for the christian ministiy, he loaned 
money from time to time. He, also, educated several adopted chil- 
di'en, having none of his ovsoi. 



NOTE H. p. 31. 

lAst of College- Graduates, natives of Southampton. 



Grad. 


Name. 


Coll. 


Stud. Divinity. 


Res. and Miscell. 


1765 


Jonathan Judd 


Yale 




Merch.S. Ham- 


17H4 


David Searl 


Dart. 




Dead. 


IbOl 


Rev. Ashbel Strong 


Will. 




In State of Del. 


1802 


" Lyman Strong, M. D. 


a 


Rev. A. Hooker 


Teacher, Col- 
chester, Ct. 


1804 


" Sylvester Burt 


ti 


Dr. Lathrop 


Gr. Barrington, 
d. Jan. 20, 1836. 


1804 


" John Woodbridge,D.D. 


<i 


Rev. A. Hooker 


New Hartf Ct. 


1804 


Martin L. Hurlburt 


Harv. 




Resides in Phil. 


1805 


Rev. Saul Clark 


Will. 


Dr. Lathrop 


Bethany, Ct. 


1808 


Theodore Pomeroy, M. D. 


Yale 




Physician, Uti- 
ca,N. Y. 


1808 


Rev. Samuel Ware 


Will. 


Rev. Mr. Gould 


South Deerfield 


1808 


" Rufus Pomeroy 


i( 


Dr. Packard 


Otis. 


1810 


" Thaddeus Pomeroy 


a 


Andover 


Gorham,Me. 


]81I 


" Isaac Parsons 


Fale 


a 


E. Haddam,Ct. 


1811 


" William Strong 


Will. 




Ohio. 


1812 


'< Federal Burt 


" 


Dr. J. Lymau 


Durham, Me. d. 
Feb. 9, 1828. 


1813 


" Svlvester Woodbridge 


IC 


Andover 




1813 


" Rufus Hurlburt 


Harv. 




Sudbury ,d. 1840 


1813 


" Noble D. Strong 


Mid. 




Died 1833. [Vt. 


1815 


" Aretas Loomis 


Will. 


Rev. Mr. Gould 


E. Bennington, 


1816 


Justin W. Clark 


Harv. 




Lawyer, North- 
ampton, d 1833. 


1817 


Rev. Medad Pomeroy 


Will. 


Auburn 


Otisco, N. Y. 


1818 


" Chandler Bates 


u 


Rev. J. Benedict 


Parma, N.Y. 


1818 


" Lemuel P. Bates 


If 


Princeton 


Flint, Mich. 


1818 


" Philetus Clark 


Mid. 


Rev. J. Benedict 


Windsor. 



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Grad. 


Name. 


Coll. 


Stud. Divinity. 


Res. and Miscell. 


1«22 


Rev. Erastus Clapp 


Union 


Prof. R. Emerson 
& Dr. Beecher 


Northauipton. 


1824 


" Jairus Burt 


Amh. 


Auburn 


Canton, Ct. 


1824 


" Bela B. Edwards 


'• 


Andover 


Prof. Andover 
Theol. Sem. 


1825 


" Abner V. Clark 


Yale 


Auburn 


d.Augusta,N.Y. 
Feb.C, 1835. 


1825 


« Ralph Clapp 


Amh. 


Dr.J.Woodbridge 


Parma, N.Y. 


1829 


Joseph B. Clapp 


(1 




Stud-lawBrook- 
lyn, N. Y. 


182!) 


Rev. Jeremiah Fomeroy 


" 


Auburn 


Troy, JN. Y. 


1830 


Alvan W. Chapman, M. D. 


a 




Studied med.at 
the South. 


1830 


Gideon Searl 


Union 




d. at Greenville 
O.Aug. 14, 1837. 


1831 


Rev. Jesse L. Frary 


Amh. 


Princeton & Lane 


Apple Cr'k,Mo. 


1831 


Edward R. Thorp 


Hamil. 




res.at theSouth. 


1832 


Israel W. Searl 


Amh. 




Agt. Liberia, d. 
Oct. 1834. 


1832 


Mahlon P. Chapman 


11 


Andover 


D. at Andover, 
Sept 1,1834. 


1833 


Rev. Philander Bates 


it 


a 


Utica, Mich. 


1833 


" Rufus C. Clapp 


" 


Andover & East 
Windsor 


Tinmouth, Vt. 


1834 


David Gould 


u 




Law.N.Y. City. 


1835 


Rev. Serene D. Clark 


11 


Andover 


Ashfield. 


1835 


" Justus L. Janes 


li 


E. Windsor and 
Rev. M.E.White 


Guilford, N.Y. 


1835 


" Lemuel Pomeroy 


11 


East Windsor 


Smyrna, N.Y. 


1835 


Alexander H. Strong 


Will. 




D. Te.xas, Sept. 
1840. 


1837 


Rev. Lewis F. Clark 


Amh. 


Andover 


Goshen. 


1837 


" Wm. H. Sheldon 


Yale 


ti 




1839 


Spencer S. Clark 


Amh. 







NOTE I. p. 36. 

The population of Southampton, in 1840, was 1158. The river 
Manhan passes twice tlirough the township. The Farmington canal, 
connecting New Haven with Connecticut river at Northampton, pass- 
es near the centre of the place. The lead mine in the north part of 
the town, is not now worked. The town is eight miles south of 
Northampton, and about seven miles north of the western rail-road at 
Westfield. 

NOTE J. p. 36. 

The following persons have been deacons of the church. 



1743 Waitstill Strong, jr. 
1743 John Clark 
1766 Elias Lyman 
1766 Samuel Edwards 

1780 Abner Pomeroy 

1781 Douglas King 
1786 John Lyman 



1790 Elisha Edwards 
1801 Samuel Burt 
1801 Roswell Strong 
3824 Ansel Clark 

Theodore Strong 
Walter Bates 
Theodore Steams. 



The last two now officiate as deacons. 



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Dea. Samuel Edwards senior kept a school in Northampton and 
Southampton more than foity winters. He was, also, many years, town 
treasurer, as was his son Dea. Elisha Edwards. Dea. John Lyman was 
a man of great weight of character and exemplariness of life. He was 
equally remarkable for his wit and his wisdom. He and his contem- 
poraries Capt. Lemuel Pomeroy and Jonathan Judd, Esq., were among 
the ablest and most useful men, who have resided in the town. Capt. 
Pomeroy was, for a long series of years, representative to the General 

Court. 

We may mention in this connection, that Mr. Gould's salary was 
$333 and 30 cords of wood. He had $1000 settlement. Mr. White 
is a native of Ashfield, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and of An- 
dover Theol. Seminary. Rev. Mr. Shepard of Bristol, R. 1. preached 
his ordination sermon. 



PROCEEDINGS AT THE CELEBJ^ATION. 

The people of Southampton, at a legal meeting holden April 5,^ 
1841, voted to celebrate the centennial celebration of the settlement ot 
the town ; and to request the Rev, B. B. Edwards of Andover, a native 
of the place, to deliver an address on the occasion. The following ni- 
dividuals were chosen a committee of arrangements, viz. Rev. Morris 
E. White, and Elisha Edwards, Asahel Birge, Asahel Chapman and 
Stephen Strong, Esquires. 

The celebration accordingly took place on Friday, July 23, 1 841. 
The public exercises commenced at 11 o'clock, A. M. in the village 
meeting-house. The day was propitious, though the heat of the at- 
mosphere' was intense, till it was somewhat mitigated by a slight 
shower in the afternoon. The house was crowded, and some were 
compelled to remain around the door. Many individuals from the 
neighboring towns were present, and some strangers from a distance. 
The exercises were as follows. Invocation and reading of the 
Scriptures by the Rev. Morris E. White. The whole congregation 
then arose and sung, in the tune of Mear, the following old version 
of the 44th Psalm. 

We with our ears have heai'd, O God, 

Our fathers have us told 
What works thou wroughtest in their days, 

Ev'n in the times of old. 

How thy hand drave the heathen out, 

And planted them thou hast. 
How thou the people didst afflict, 

And out them thou didst cast. 



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For by their sword they did not get 

The land's possession ; 
Nor was it their own arm tliat did 

Work their salvation. 

But thy right hand, thine arm also ; 

Tliy countenance's light ; 
Because that of thine own good will, 

Thou didst in them deliglit. 

Prayer was then offered by Rev. Lyman Strong, of Colchester, Ct., 
a native of the town. This was succeeded by the following Ode, 
written for the occasion, by Mrs. L. H. Sigouruey of Hartford, and 
sung in the time of St. Ann's. 

One hundred years ! one hundred years ! 

Could they reverse their track. 
And bear upon the wide-spread wing 

Their varied annals back, — 

What buried forms, what altered scenes 

Would in their record glow, — 
The unshorn wood, the thicket rude, 

The Indian hunter's bow — 

The grey-hair'd fathers here would stand. 

Whose trust in Heaven was strong. 
When loud the savage war-cry peal'd 

These verdant fields along : — 

And ye who in their places rise, 

With every blessing fraught, 
Give praise for all tlie glorious change 

One hundi-ed years have brought. 

An address was then pronounced by Rev. B. B. Edwards, which occu- 
pied about an hour and a half in the delivery. The exercises were con- 
cluded with prayer by the Rev. Aretas Loomis of East Bennington, 
Vt, a native of the town ; music from the choir ; and a benediction 
by Rev. Mr. Strong. The following Ode, written by Daniel W. Chap- 
man, Esq. of Rochester, N. Y., a native of Southampton, was, unfor- 
tunately, not received in season to be included in the performances. 
It was read by Mr. Stn^ng. 

A lumdi-ed years have passed away, 
Since here wide waving, old and gray, 

Tlie unshorn forest stood — 
Since here the savage fierce and grim, 
Ranged its wild haunts and shadows dim, 

Dark dweller of the wood ! 



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But they who first amidst the wild, 
On high their Christian altar piled, 

And, consecrate to God, 
Cast their glad offering in its blaze 
And sang aloud their hymn of praise, 

Now rest beneath the sod ! 

And we have come fi-om mountain side. 
From field and valley spreading wide, 

From many a fruitful plain. 
Where homes of plenty smile and bless, 
The men who from the wilderness 

Redeemed its old domain ; 

To banish from the darkening past 
The shadows Time hath dimly cast 

On our reverting view ; — 
To commune with the loved and dead 
And 'round their deeds and virtues shed 

Our memory's light anew. 

And may, (as we turn page by page 
The records of a by-gone age. 

Whose ' simple annals ' tell 
Of noble men) — their virtues stern 
Still o'er their graves like incense burn. 

And with the living dwell. 

A hundred years ! — when Time's swift wing ! 
Another century's close shall bring, 

And other men shall rise 
And call their own each hill and stream. 
Which round in light and beauty beam. 

And these their native skies — 

When they like us shall gather here 
To read what each returnless year 

Hath graven on the past. 
Be ours the high and holy aim, 
That deeds of good may round our name 

A brightening halo cast ! 

After these exercises were closed, the whole audience repaired in 
a procession, preceded by a band of music from Williamsburg, to the 
orchard in the rear of the house of the Rev. Mr. White, where tables 
were spread for the accommodation of from 800 to 1000 persons. 
For the tasteful arrangement, and ample supply of food, well prepared 
and in great varieties, the ladies of the town merited and received 
much credit. All the accommodations were called into requisition ; 



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while the children were feasted in primitive simplicity, the ground 
serving the purpose of seats and tables. Every article of food upon 
the tables was the product of the town itself A blessing was pro- 
nounced, and thanks were returned by the Rev. Joab Brace of New- 
ington ( Wethersfield), Ct. Pertinent and stirring addresses were made 
by the Rev. Messrs. John Todd of Philadelphia, A. W. McClure of 
Maiden, L. Strong of Colchester, Ct. and J. Bui't of Canton, Ct. The 
hymn, beginning, " Blest be the tie," etc. was simg, and the benedic- 
tion was pronounced by Mr. White. 

" Thus passed off," says the editor of the Hampshire Gazette, " one 
of the most pleasant and agreeable celebrations it has ever been our 
happiness to participate in. There was so much simplicity, cordiality, 
and good feeling, that none whose heart was not poisoned by the cor- 
roding influences of corrupt fashion, could fail to be pleased. The 
people of Southampton can look back upon the event with unmingled 
pleasure." 



It may be subjoined, that the " Southampton Association of Minis- 
ters," was formed in August, 1826. A large number of ministers, natives 
of the place, were then present, and adopted measures for securing fu- 
ture meetings. These have been held triennially. The religious ex- 
ercises, on these occasions, have commonly extended through two or 
three days, and have been attended with much interest. The num- 
ber of ministers present has varied from thirteen to thirty. The next 
meeting of the Association is to be held on the third Wednesday of 
September, 1844. 



Note. As the preceding Address and Notes have been prepared at a dis- 
tance from the scenes and objects to whicli they relate, errors in dates and 
other matters may have escaped the author's notice. Rev. Mr. Gould, (p. 
3"2) was born in 1773. P. 31, line 12, for forty-six, read forty-seven; line 
13, for thirty-two, read thirty-three. 



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